Comment by Jotalea

I am not a parent, but I have a little brother whose technology is partially controlled by me. I control what apps can he install, what games can he play, what ads can he see (almost none), and leave the rest to our parents.

he recently got a "new" PC. it's quite old, it has an Intel Celeron E1200, 2GB DDR3, 300GB HDD, no wifi (ethernet-only), and still runs Vista.

I've been doing my research and found out that I could install a lightweight Linux distro like Arch Linux, with a lightweight window manager like i3 or dwm, and maybe run a few games he likes (Minecraft, some NES/SNES/GameBoy games; I have low expectations from this computer), and a basic web browser.